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rvJJN WASHINGTON . . . Goldwater Ahead Of Field For 1 964 PAGE HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Monday, August i, 1961 "Wei! Here Comes Our Candidate for 1996!"' All the talk about a mass march on Wash ington in August by the racial demonstrators has succeeded in bringing back some of the memories of other marches designed to in fluence the nation's lawmakers and Presi dents. There's argument for both the pros and cons regarding the effectiveness of such pa rades under the shadows of the White House arid Congress. It can be said, however, that the record indicates Washington's reaction was not favorable. First, the record should show that a law forbids demonstrations on the 31 acres sur rounding the U.S. Capitol. Carrying signs, making speeches or any other threatening ges ture is forbidden. One of the earliest planned demonstra tions was in 1877 when efforts were being made to impeach President Johnson. A crowd gathered attempting to influence Senator Ross, of Kansas. Plans did not materialize and in fact, may have boomeranged because the Senator cast his vote against the mood of the crowd, thus saving President Johnson from impeachment. Perhaps the most famous of all marches was that of "Coxey's Army." It was made up of unemployed, the ragged, hungry victims of the great depression. The crowds streamed into Washington demanding relief in the form of a regular sum of money, plus food supplies. The "dole" they called it. The demonstrators were arrested as they reached the capitol grounds. t. Then there was the mass of "bonus marchers" in 1932. The crowd was estimated at 10,000, consisting of the boys who had - (Dairy Record) It is understandable that those nations with problems of food shortages would be in terested in making barter deals with the United States for grains, but as the National Milk Producers Federation pointed out, tobac co figured in about 38 per cent of the barter deals, corn 24 per cent, wheat 15 per cent, and grain sorghum 14 per cent during the first three months of 1936. In contrast, nonfat dry milk accounted for but 8.5 per cent of the barter program HOLMES Hard Jly HOLMES ALEXANDER WASHINGTON, D.C.-The ad jective "hard-line," used to de scribe an adamant position against all things Communist, can also be accurately used to de scribe an unmovable position against all things Kennedy. These two attitudes combine in the Senate today against ratifi cation of the pending nuclear test ban treaty. Theirs is not the only opposition, but it needs to be primarily noted. The Old Guardsmen ot the Sen ate led by Barry Goldwater are backed in their consciences, as well as in their constituencies, by the absolute conviction that any accommodation ot com munism is nothing less than shameful surrender. Their be liefs have taken the Old Guards men out to many a brink, and tlxiy will not shudder at Uiis one. The Old Guard is already com mitted to oppose any nuclear treaty except one that unilater ally disarms the Communists. Then there aro the hard-liners against JFK himself, particularly those who oppose his racial poli cies. I would judgo it impossible for Mr. Kennedy's nuclear trea tyin any foreseeable form to get more than a minimum of support from Southern Senators who look upon him as a socializ er, a waster, a Conslilutlon-nib-bler, a business-buster and a race-levelcr. In theory, tlie do mestic issues should not becloud the foreign issues. In practice, the hard-liner at home Is very exceptional if lie is not also a hard-liner when lie looks abroad. These two categories will sub tract substantially from tlie votes Mr. Kennedy can hope to get for a nuclear treaty. Another Rroup which lines up against him is the military-minded memliership of ' (lie Senate. Iticliard Russell, chairman of Armed Service, John Stcnnis, chairman of tlie Pre paredness Subcommittee, Henry Jackson, Barry Goldwater end Strom Thurmond, committee members, have already taken tentative positions on the doubt ers' bench. Three of tltcsc are Southerners and one Is Mr. Con servative. They would have to Unfavorable Reaction fought in World War I. Across the river from the capitol grounds stood another 10,000. Here they had erected shacks from paper and scrap wood and tin. As the veterans paraded in downtown Washington they sang, "America" and then streamed back across the Anacostia River, where they resumed their stand in much the same fashion as today's "sit-ins." For days they camped there and then in late July 1932, President Hoover was per suaded by the commissioners of the District to use the Army to force the "squatters" to move on. Hoover hesitated but finally gave the order and it was General MacArthur, Army chief of staff, who commanded the units. Tear gas was used. The shacks were burned. Violence flared. The record shows that a number of Sen ators actually changed their stands on the matter of paying the bonus and voted against payment. All because of the pressure from the marchers. Eventually, however, the bonus bill was passed but four years had elapsed from the time of the marches. Also, it was passed only after a third veto by President Roosevelt. Sen. Towers, Texas Republican, has in timated that Congress would not legislate dur ing the demonstrations, if they occur this month. Perhaps it might be fitting that Con gress declare a recess and get out of town if the demonstrations do occur. And further, we suggest young Bobby refrain from making any speeches to them and the President might well take off for Hyannis Port. For any high responsible official to so much as make an appearance, would only lend dignity to such a wild party. What Goes Here? exports, while butter shipments were negli gible. ! Under the barter arrangement, the re cipient countries can pretty much pick and choose the surplus products they wish, but after 18 years and at a cost of billions of dol lars we are still being fed the same old pap that, we must feed the have-not nations to keep them from playing footsie with Russia and the sattclite nations. Tobacco they can eat and butter and nonfat dry milk they cannot eat? ALEXANDER - liners In Senate be forcibly convinced, and per suaded by tlie most overwhelming military testimony, that President Kennedy is right just this once. No such testimony, however, will be forthcoming. The Joint Chiefs of Staff do not favor nuclear disarmament in any form. Finally, against the treaty be fore it ever conies to Uie floor, is a history-minded group. These members are not exactly hard liners, but hard-thinkers. They are not bookish persons, who oil en botlicr to recite Russia's rec ord for Ueaty-breaking in letter and spirit, but cogitating per sons, who comprehend the exist ing Russo-American relationship. In looking for an apt expression of this relationship. I have found it in President Kennedy's own words spoken as recently as July 17. Tlie President was telling his news conference why a joint BERRY'S WORLD HOMEY Firz- . mm V ''-H-. "DdJy, did you REALLY look like CUff Robertson" Russo-American moon shot cfrort would be impossible. He said: "The kind of cooperative effort which would be required for the Soviet Union and the United States to go to tlie moon would require a breaking down of a good many barriers of suspicion and distrust and hostility which exist between the Communist world and our selves. There is no evidence, as yet, Uiat these barriers will come down. . . ." Senators who recognize that "these barriers" apply with even greater force to nuclear disarma ment, rather than to moon-shooting, will very likely join w ith the hard-liners and the military-minded in opposition to the test ban treaty. Mr. Kennedy will have to find his supporters among Senators who fit none of these descriptions. It won't be easy. t rr iL WW 1 IN WASHINGTON By RALPH de TOLEDANO An extremely worried Senate is contemplating the nuclear test ban negotiated by Under Secre tary Averell Harriman with the Soviets. There was general agree ment from the start that it would LETTERS TO THE EDITOR New Values? It was intriguing to have Mrs. Lungreen in her July 28 let ter 'Inform us that we are living in what is known as an epistc mological society. What hap pened to the welfare society? What values are we shedding in this new society? Do intellectuals of this society no longer hold life, liberty, and tlie pursuit of happi ness as constant, unchanging val ues? A future generation that does not hold these values in their frame of reference will not have a society of civilized men. but live in a barbaric state. Those who do hold these values would suffer if they were lost-and be distressed at even the considera tion of losing them. It is from an altruist-mystic base that de duces that children of today must suffer for children of tomorrow. Through this thinking, slaves are made. It is not basic values which are changing, but tlie ethical code which must support and sustain tlie values of man. Proponents of the mystic codes switch from ra tionality to moronic stupor, hypo critical and self-defeating, at one time making a pretense of sustain ing values and the next sacri ficing them. Consistency is not tlieir virtue. On this altar, the welfare society had its heyday. It only took advantage of the mystical - altruist philosophical base. The businessman Ulie one man found in a capitalist, but not in a Communist society I has had no philosophical support. In spile of the historical proof that capi talism has produced the highest standard of living of any society, it is the businessman who is damned if he makes a profit and condemned if he does not. His guilt, the mystics say. is that he produces for his follnwman, for which he is berated as an exploit er. He creates, develops, supplies goods, services, and jobs for his (ellowman. To the extent the mystical-altruist philosophies were ex istent in societies, that frame of reference held him guilty, and through that psycho-epistemology chained and drained him. A philosophical standard to support values and capitalism has been Identified. For those who hold basic principals, consistent application, and a moral code as a practical necessity, the philoso phy of novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand supplies tlie foundation for a rational society. Miss Rand has been engaged to lecture at Lewis and Clark College, Oct. 2. Tie murage ami intellectual foresight of President .John Howard for this outstanding event will give him historical sig nificance In education in Oregon. Floy Johnson. 419 Delia. What Does Ban pass handily, but concern contin ues as to what it may mean to the future of the free world. The Senate's worries have been for tlie most part kept under wraps. "How can you talk against a treaty that's billed as the first step to peace?" one Senator asked querulously. Members of the House have been slightly more outspoken, but since they do not share the Senate's "advise and consent" prerogatives, their com ments have not carried much weight. Off-the-record discussions with several Senators indicate the causes of their worry. First, they are somewhat suspicious of the great pressure being exerted by the White House to get uncritical support. This is a normal politi cal reaction in the relations be tween tlie Hill and 1600 Pennsyl- , vania Avenue. A more important cause for tlieir doubls is the conviction that the test-ban treaty, in itself, is only part of the story. Senators who have not opposed the tieaty that the President Kennedy, in his voluminous private correspon dence with Comrade Khrushchev, and Under Secretary Harriman have committed the United States to a course of action that can at best be called "unwise." For example, it is being asked, did Under Secretary Harriman promise a further reduction of American military power in Eu rope or the closing down of more bases in return for a Soviet agree ment? Did the future of NATO and CENTO come up for discus sion? The President's steady withdrawal of support of Cu ban exile aspirations has been w idely noted in Washington. Was there any connection between this new policy and the treaty? That Mr. Harriman was the ne gotiator has added to senatorial worries. For, as I reported last March, quoting from an unpub lished 1944 transcript of a Harri man briefing session, the Under Secretary is given to large enthu siasms that cloud his judgment. In October. 1944, Mr. Harriman ac cepted Stalin's promises that the Soviet Union had no designs on Poland and the other now-captive nations. The conferences in which the fate of Eastern Europe was decided were characterized by the then Ambassador Harriman as "damn good healthy" sessions. Mr. Harriman assured us, more over, that Stalin's whole postwar program was dedicated to the es tablishment of an equitable peace. And he was so overcome by the Soviet tyrant that he expressed "a great sympathy" with Commu nist arguments that Germans be condemned to slave labor (or the Soviet Union. And he predicted an era of cooperation in Greece between the Communists and the democratic elements. (At the lime. Stalin was alrea dy preparing for the civil war which brought the Greek nation to the edge of collapse and re quired the military intervention of llie British and the Americans to end Beyond this, Senators and some of their House colleagues are an xious lo know what safeguards QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q The name of what Biblical character hat come to mean a fast driver or roarhnian? A Jehu. Mean? exist to prevent tlie Soviets from cheating. It is being asserted by some that it would be impossible for the Soviets to test in the air, in space, or under the water without detection. This is a com forting thought. But the Senate has access lo independent scien tific information and it is not reassuring. Edward Teller, the father of the H-bomb, has warned of new de velopments in technology which will allow any nuclear power to lest in outer space with no chance of detection, or in the atmosphere with very little chance of getting caught. Dr. Teller may be wrong. But the fact that he can raise the question leads some Sen ators to wonder if the United States can gamble on Soviet good faith before all the evidence is in. In both House and Senate, there is one other unanswered question: Is any test ban in tlie U.S. in terest? Representative John W. Byrnes of Wisconsin, the chair man of the House Republican Pol icy Committee, suggests that the treaty "will give a false sense of security since a test ban has no effect upon the real issues of the fears expressed by his colleagues that "the proposed treaty will limit U.S. development of new weapons, including anti-missile missiles, at a time when we do not know whether Russia may be ahead of us in such develop ments." When these factors are added together, it is easy to understand why the Senate's advice and con sent comes with such trepidation. By SYDNEY J. HARRIS When people behave the way nations behave, we put them away either in prison or in men tal insUtutions. No society would permit any of its individuals to act in so arbitrary, irrational and dangerous way. There can be no peace in t h e world until the same laws that apply to individuals apply to indi vidual nations. No matter how many treaties we make, how many pacts we sign, how many alliances we form, how many dis armament conferences we attend, so long as each nation is a law unto itself, the world can have at best an uneasy truce, and not for long. How could mankind have even a village if each villager refused to obey a common law, if he held himself a sovereign power, if he declared it to be his inalien able right to wage war on his neighbor whenever he saw fit? Yet the world today is as small as a village, and even more in flammable. But we do not have a common police department, or a common fire department, or a common court. Nations today are no farther apart than Boston from New York in Colonial days: much closer indeed in terms of time, in terms of the capacity for mutual destruction. What is insane about tins situa tion is not that it exists, but that its existence is admitted by every oneand yet everyone persists in behaving as though it did not ex ist, as though foot soldiers wiih muskets were still defending Bun Rv PETER EPSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON i NE A i The .Na tional Draft Goldwater for Pres ident headquarters in Washington will announce the names of its first state chairmen and State organizing committee members within the next few weeks. All will be regular Republicans with experience and recognized standing in the GOP. The political importance of this strategy can hardly be overes timated. It will refute the conten tion of New York's Gov. Nelson Rockefeller and others that the Goldwater drive is the work of right-wing extremists on the luna tic fringe. There is no disputing that most of the enthusiasm for Goldwater now comes from grass roots sup porters and political amateurs. There have been local Goldwater for President clubs in many com munities for two years and more, but they have been unrelated, unofficial and outside the Repub lican party. The second big job of the Na tional Draft Goldwater Commit teeto be done concurrently with setting up state, county and city organizations will be to co ordinate these independent local clubs with the regular party. Many of these local clubs have been circulating their own pe titions urging nomination of Gold water as tlie candidate in 1964. Draft Goldwater headquarters also has petitions out, and it asks all signers for a dollar as tlieir con tribution to the cause. There are around 100,000 signa tures on these petitions now. The idea is to bring them all together. There is a blank state chart in Draft Goldwater headquarters now, waiting for insertion of the first state totals. The hope is to run the total number of signa tures into the millions. Peter O'Donnell Jr., national chairman of the Draft Goldwater Committee, and F. Clifton White, its executive director, head up the job of building this organiza tion. O'Donnell, well-to-do young Dal WASHINGTON REPORT . . . Officials Overlook Ways To Clip Cuba By FULTON LEWIS JR. It is a serious charge, but the evidence is overwhelming: Ad ministration officials have refused to implement federal laws that would curtail free world trade with Castro Cuba. The statutes, passed last year as part of Public Law 87-872, were designed to cut off U.S. foreign aid to those nations that help keep the Cuban economy off the rocks. Investigation by Congressman Mel Laird, Wisconsin Republican, uncovers the fact that nearly half a billion dollars in U.S. foreign aid has since been shipped lo countries that supply Castro with strategic and other materials. The State Department does not deny that there are statutes that STRICTLY PERSONAL ker Hill. What we call "madness" in the individual, we call "slate craft" in the assembly of nations. W'e stand precariously with one foot in the 18th century, and the other in the 20th. Our social, po litical and cultural concepts are a mass of outmoded superstitions and slogans and fossilized atti tudes; while our technology our actual physical situation is rac ing ahead faster than science-fiction can keep up with it. And in this physical world, we can clearly see how things be come obsolete year by jear: what we refuse to sec is how our ideas and our attitudes likewise become obsolete as (he whole face of the earlh changes before our eyes. The prime task of the human race today is not political or so cial or economic it is psycholog ical. It is to force our minds to grasp the implications of these new concepts. It is to learn to think and fast-in terms of the cataclysmic changes Dial have come over us in tlie last lew dec ades. Among tlie most profound of these changes is the decline of national autonomy; tlie single na tion, or even the alliance of a lew nations, is now as outmoded as the medieval duchy. Wars can no longer be won bv combinations of powers-for wars can no long er be won This Is the hardest lesion the human race will have to learn: that countries are now forced to adopt ihe same morahtv they cmorcc upon their citizens' or perish. las businessman and Republican state chairman in Texas since 1D36, knows all the GOP regu lars. He is on the move, calling on national and state committee men to line up responsible lead ers. While is a New York political science teacher and public rcla. tions man who has dabbled in pol itics since 1948 as a Dewey, Ei senhower and Nixon backer. He played a leading role in blocking Rockefeller's presidential ambi tions in I960. He wouldn't be averse to doing it again in 1964. Some GOP state committees have a ride that their chairman must be a neutral, not backing any one candidate for political olfice before the primary or state convention. In other slates this is a ruling of the state executive commit tee, a custom that has been fol lowed for years, or a personal preference of the state chairman himself. In all such states, O'Donnell, 1 White and their co-workers are forced to look elsewhere for Gold water state and local chairmen and committeemen. But they are recruiting from the ranks of re sponsible Republican citizens who have the Goldwater convic tion of conservatism not t h e crackpot extremists. There is no assurance that Gold water will allow his name to be entered as a candidate for the nation in the New Hampshire primary next spring. If he doesn't allow it, a group of his supporters may try to present his name anyway. The importance of all this effort is that the Goldwater backers have obtained a big jump on sup porters of Rockefeller and the other GOP possibilities. Rockefeller, speaking before a few hundred rich Californians at Bohemian Grove, will make no appeal whatever to tlie rank and file Republicans he needs to win. The Republican Citizens Com mittee, meeting at Hershey, Pa., even under President Eisenhow er's sponsorship, is just as far removed from the great mass of voters. permit cracking down on traf fickers with Cuba. A deparlment spokesman, Joseph Reap, has told reporters that the Administration hopes lo use "persuasion" and not "pressure" to end Cuban trade. Twenty seven nations who ride the U.S. gravy train have yet, however, lo be persuaded. ' There arc two statutes designed to end the Cuban trade. The first flatly bans any U.S. aid to a "country which permits any ships under its registry to carry to Cuba" petroleum or other strate gic materials. In the first six months of 1963, tankers from the United Kingdom. Greece. Italy, and Norway carried oil to Cuba. Tlie Executive is giv en no discretionary authority. Un der the law, U.S. aid must imme diately be cut off. What hap pened? As of March 9, the United King dom had received $6.2 million in aid since the statute went into ef fect: Greece, $07 million; Nor way, $41.2 million, and Italy, S37 01)0. The second restriction denies aid lo any country that permits ships under ils registry lo enler Cuban ports with goods of any kind. The President is given authority to waive this provision if, in reports to appropriate committees of House and Senate, he deems it t" be in Ihe national interest. The evidence indicates, howev er, that President Kennedy has deemed to igrore this particular sU:u:e too. Inquiry made of the Congressional committees shows that no Presidential report re quired under law has been for warded from the White House. Representative Laird insists Ihe President is violating the "law o: the land" in not enforcing statutes passed by Congress and signed by his own hand. The Con stitution, he feels, is clear: "The Constitution, and the laws of the United States, which shall he made in pursuance thereof . . . shall be the supreme law of the land." The While House has no com ment on the charges of Repre sentative Laird. Congressman Frank Bow, Ohio Republican, is upset over the growing practice of radio and TV sations to sign off not with tlie "Star-Spangled Banner" but "Hail lo Ihe Chief." instead. He quotes figures showing that more than 160 stations across the nation now use a recently-recorded version of "Hail to the Chief." Ihe 130 - year - old presidential salute, to end tlieir broadcast day. The song is played by Lester Lanin. society bandleader and a favorite of the First Lady.
